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A report in the New England Journal of Medicine identifies antibodies against osteoprotegerin (a protein that prevents bone breakdown). This protein is responsible for helping maintain bone density. When it is attacked by the body’s immune system, bone loss becomes accelerated leading to osteoporosis.

It has been well established that many immune system derived chemicals help regulate inflammation, bone cell growth, bone resorption, and more.

The importance of the connection between the immune system and bone tissue is recognized in a field of research called Osteoimmunology.

It’s long been suspected that Narcolepsy (sleepy disease) was an autoimmune condition. A recent study has confirmed this. Reporting in the latest online issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in California:

“Narcolepsy is an autoimmune disorder where the body’s immune system attacks brain cells that make the “wakefulness” protein hypocretin.”

Leaky Gut Syndrome not only affects the digestive system but can lead to many other health conditions. Leaky gut could be the cause of your food allergies, low energy, joint pain, thyroid disease, autoimmune conditions and slow metabolism.

Research suggests that digestive abnormalitiesmay be the underlying cause of autoimmune diseases.

“Emerging research shows that most autoimmune conditions may share a common root hiding in the intestinal lining of individuals with autoimmune diseases, even years before the symptoms manifest.”

“Increased intestinal permeability, commonly referred to as leaky gut, can result in the absorption of incompletely digested protein and antigens that overstimulate the immune system through the bloodstream.”

“Alessio Fasano, MD, a world-renowned pediatric gastroenterologist, research scientist, and founder of the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research, believes all autoimmune conditions have three factors in common”:

a genetic susceptibility

antigen exposure

increased intestinal permeability

According to the article: Recent evidence indicates that the autoimmune process can be modulated and possibly reversed by improving intestinal permeability.

New research sheds light on mysterious fibromyalgia pain
Fibromyalgia affects 1% to 5% of Americans, mainly women, but until recently, scientists had no idea what might be causing its severe and mysterious pains. For decades, doctors told patients their agony was imaginary, the result of emotional hysteria …www.usatoday.com